Word: finally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thinking members of the globe's population, install a new social order in which all but the 40,000 Rulers will be reduced to the status of slaves. The last World War, a preliminary, was arranged by the Hidden Rulers to try out their machinery. The next and final World War, originally scheduled for this October, has been postponed because of mysterious steps taken by I.I.U.R.A...
...bureau, helped promote Mankind United, now lectures six nights a week to goggle-eyed San Franciscans, including many a onetime Townsendite. As envisioned by Author Ashwell, if each buyer of Mankind United promptly sells four copies to other buyers, the organization will end its semi-final membership drive in 14 weeks...
...When the final membership drive ends, the Ashwell theory is that the coordinated buying power of I.I.U.R.A.'s 200,000,000 members will make it possible for every-one in the world to work four hours a day, four days a week, eight months a year, and earn minimum pay of $3,000 a year, advancing to $30,000 by rapid salary raises. War and illiteracy will be extinct. Every family will have a $25,000 house. Pensions of $3,000 a year for oldsters will start at once. But none of I.I.U.R.A.'s benefits will...
...lime, marble dust and water. But no matter how little glycerine they used it would appear later in small beads on the surface of the plaster. Then they tried butyl alcohol (butanol) with the same ingredients. This worked, but made the plaster surface too soft to work on. The final formula was the simplest: equal parts of butanol and water. Muralist Rivera, pleased as Punch, confirmed their claim that spraying walls with this preparation every three or four hours enables a painter to work twice as long on one section or to apply plaster to twice as large an area...
ZEPPELIN-Captain Ernst A. Lehmann-Longmans, Green ($3). History of lighter-than-air craft by the commander of the ill-fated Hindenburg. Foreword and final chapter by Commander Charles E. Rosendahl describe the disaster. Well illustrated...